Strategic Finance Lead — Data Center Build-Outs

Precision Labs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Other benefits

Job summary

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, seeks a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to own the cost base of data center build-outs and validate predicts against plan. You will partner with Infrastructure Strategy to model economics for candidate sites and manage cash forecasting tied to prepays and hardware timelines.

The role requires hands-on financial rigor, experience with large-scale infra capex, and the ability to translate technical discussions into clear cost numbers for leadership

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with data center or large-scale infrastructure capex.
• Exceptional financial modeling skills, including site-level TCO and scenario analysis.
• Demonstrated ownership of budget-versus-actual for large capital projects.
• Comfort working with technical partners and translating discussions into cost numbers.

Responsibilities

• Own the cost base and cost forecast for data center build-outs, including non-recurring costs, capex, and operating costs.
• Validate build-outs are on plan by tracking budget-versus-actual and flag variances early.
• Maintain all-in unit cost of owned capacity (dollars-per-GPU-hour) by GPU type.
• Evaluate new data center opportunities with economics, prepays, financing, tax treatment, and total cost of ownership.
• Pressure-test hardware cost assumptions and surface savings with engineering and strategy teams.
• Translate delivery timelines and milestones into cash forecast and track prepays to suppliers.
• Build dashboards and recurring processes to show committed capital, spend, and forecast by site.

Skills

Financial modeling

Budgeting

Infrastructure finance

Stakeholder comms

Ownership

Job description

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, seeks a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to own the cost base of data center build-outs and validate predicts against plan. You will partner with Infrastructure Strategy to model economics for candidate sites and manage cash forecasting tied to prepays and hardware timelines.

The role requires hands-on financial rigor, experience with large-scale infra capex, and the ability to translate technical discussions into clear cost numbers for leadership